Today on Flashpoints, an in-depth update on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya People from Myanmar formerly known as Burma. We’ll be joined by human rights activist, Ko Myo Win and award-winning filmmaker Jeanne Hallacy, who has a new SHORT, HARD-HITTING documentary called SITTWE about the history and the plight of the Rohingya people. Also, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in protest today marking a century since the Balfour Declaration, and the illegal annexation of Palestine. We’ll speak to the filmmaker of a new documentary on the life and times of former US Attorney General and human right attorney, Ramsey Clark.

Today on Flashpoints, an encore broadcast of the powerful, new lecture by author, activist and founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, speaking on the “Turning Point for the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Can Israeli Apartheid Really Be Defeated?”, recorded during his recent visit to the Bay Area. Mr. Abunimah was speaking in honor of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, founder, the ever devoted and courageous Barbara Lubin.

Today on Flashpoints: A powerful new lecture by author, activist and founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, speaking on the “Turning Point for the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Can Israeli Apartheid Really Be Defeated?”, Ali Abunimah was in the bay area speaking in honor of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, founder, the ever devoted and courageous Barbara Lubin.

The Global Women’s Strike calls for support of twenty thousand Haitian women demanding the return of ousted president Jean Bertrand-Aristide; also, a look at TIME magazine’s pro-war disinformation; JR and the Block Report update the bloody wars and the growing resistance to them in the Congo.

We’ll have a report from Beirut, Lebanon, on the deadly face-off between Lebanese and Israeli forces at the tense border between the two countries; we’ll also talk about the reconstruction of Southern Lebanon on the fourth anniversary of the massive Israeli air attack on the country; we’ll feature a special report on the recent Israeli air strikes against Gaza; and we’ll have a special report from Dahr Jamail on the expanding cover up by the United States and BP of the worst oil disaster in modern history.

This is the video from which we played the audio during today’s Up Front.

Today on Flashpoints, we continue our focus on the expanding violence of the militarized US-Mexico border; we’ll also speak with Rene Salcedo about the growing movement for migrant worker rights in the US; then, we’ll turn our focus to Bay Area activists who are planning to prevent a ship from apartheid Israel to be unloaded at the Port of Oakland; also, on Flashpoints en espanol we’ll focus on the situation in Arizona and migrant worker rights.

Click Here for more information about the Port of Oakland action which was discussed on today’s show.

Unraveling the Israeli disinformation machine, we’ll speak with Max Blumenthal, who has been on the trail of the big Israeli lie since Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza flotilla; also, international law expert Francis Boyle advises the victims of Israel’s attack on potential legal strategies for prosecution at the International Criminal Court; and we’ll have a report on private profiteers in bed with traffickers and the state department in Afghanistan.

Today on Flashpoints, Amnesty International says recent convictions for the 1984 Union Carbide-Bhopal disaster are too little and too late; we’ll have a report on the continued suffering of tens of thousands who were wounded in the 1984 release of thousands of pounds of deadly chemicals; also, victims of Israel’s recent bloody commando raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla consider international legal action against Israel; we’ll have an update on the continuing BP oil gusher disaster in the Gulf; we’ll also be joined in the studio by Paul Larudee, who was heading for Gaza on the Mavi Marmara when commandos attacked, killed and beat passengers; finally, Nora Barrows-Friedman contrtibutes an interview with congressional candidate for tomorrow’s election, Marcy Winograd.

With a bloody raid on the “Freedom Flotilla,” Israel has demonstrated, once again, its willingness to kill innocents in order to sustain its punishing blockade on the Gaza strip, even when doing so raises more and more questions about nuclear-armed Israel’s national sanity.

Scholar Norman Finkelstein, author of a new book on Israel’s 2008-09 assault on Gaza entitled “This Time We’ve Gone Too Far,” deemed the attack on the six ships in international waters that left nine people dead Monday the actions of a “demented… lunatic state.”Read the rest of this entry →

An in-depth interview with Gaza Freedom Flotilla organizer Huwaida Arraf from occupied Palestine; Arraf was on one of the seized boats and was then left after being interrogated in Israel on the side of the road, semi-conscious; we’ll also speak with Cindy Corrie, whose daughter was run over by an Israeli bulldozer and murdered in the Gaza Strip; one of the flotilla boats now on the way is named the Rachel Corrie, after her daughter; we’ll also speak with Allan Nairn about the legalization of murder by US and Israeli forces; and we’ll speak to the wife of a Bay Area resident who was also seized and beaten by Israeli commandos; finally, we’ll present a daily short news feature called ‘Up Front with Jesse Strauss’.

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